Montreal-based pianist/composer Pat Piperni is sitting you down in a quiet room, turning the lights low, and letting a single piano tell the truth on โQuiet Stormโ (released December 23, 2025). Recorded and mastered solo in his home studio, with digital piano (Ivory 3) through Cubase, the track wears its DIY intimacy like a perfectly fitted coat. You can hear the lineage too, with the hush-and-colour of Debussy, the romantic ache of Chopin, and that modern, cinematic emotional clarity youโd associate with Ludovico Einaudi or Yiruma.
โQuiet Stormโ arrives slowly, with elegant notes that land like careful footsteps on old floorboards. Thereโs space between phrases that makes you lean in. Then, tucked behind the piano, you catch these faint, ghostly strings writhing distantly, like the weather outside the window or the static of a memory you canโt quite place. Itโs instantly fitting for Piperniโs own description of the piece: reflective and nostalgic, but uneasy in a strangely comforting way.
As it unfolds, the piano starts to speak in a conversational flow. It doesnโt march to a strict, predictable pattern; it ebbs and swells at an unrhymed, natural pace, the way your thoughts do when youโre lying awake at 2 a.m. Two notes will seem to โanswerโ each other, question and shrug, then the harmony shifts and the emotional lighting changes. But you will notice the forward motion, because whatever happens, the piece keeps evolving into new shapes without looping back for an easy chorus or padding time. Itโs a conversation and a discussion that seeks to find a resolution and an understanding.
By the end, a lighter, delicate, sharply placed note closes the door softly. And thatโs the magic of โQuiet Stormโ: it leaves you a little quieter than it found you. Find out if Pat Piperniโs storm subsided on Spotify.
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Review by: Naomi Joan